Fence



(No Model.) J. M. FELLOWS.

FENCE.- No. 402,729. I Patented May 7, 1889'.

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NITED STATES JOHN M. FELLOIVS, OF BURLINGTON, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,729, dated May 7, 1889. Application filed September 12, 1887. Renewed April 4, 1889. Serial No. 306,027. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN M. FELLOWS, of Burlington, in the county of Carroll and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to fences for lands, and has for its object to provide an inexpensive and substantial fence which may be quickly corrected and always kept plumb, irrespective of the contour of the groundsurface, and may be easily removed and set up elsewhere.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction of the fence, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a fence embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modified form of the fence; and Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the fence-posts, with the fence wires and rails and clamp-plate in section.

The wooden posts of the fence are made with uprights or posts proper, A, which are provided at their lower ends with a tenon, a, which enters a mortise, b, of a sill or groundtimber', B, on the face of which the rounded shoulders a of the post A rest when the post is pivoted to the sill, which is done by a pin,

vO, passed laterally through the sill and the tenon. The weight of the fence will be taken off of the pin 0 and be borne by the rounded shoulders, which are free to rock on the said sill when being adjusted. A brace bar or slat, D, is connected, by a bolt, (Z, or otherwise, to the inner end of the sill B, and at its upper part is provided with a series of holes, 6, through any one of which a pin or bolt, E, may be passed into the rounded or beveled upper end of the post A.

By securing the upper end of the brace D to the top of the post it will in no way interfere with the fence-rails, as it would if passed between the rails.

It is obvious that the post A may be set plumb sidewise of or across the fence, while the sill B may rest on uneven or rolling ground, and the post may be stayed in position by adjusting the pin or bolt E to the proper hole of the brace. The longitudinal stringers of the fence may consist wholly of wooden rails or boards F,

or partly of said rails orboards, and wires G, strung'along the posts A and secured thereto, as presently described.

The composite rail-and-wire fencing shown in Figsl and 3 of the drawings consists of rails F F, which are shown scarf-jointed at their ends which meet at the fence-posts A, and outside of the rails a clamp-bar, H, is used. This clamp H comprises a board or plate a few feet long and provided with upper and lower pairs of holes, through which tiewires I J pass from the post, and then are twisted tightly at c'j, respectively, at the outer face of the clamp, which is thus bound se curely to the rails to hold them snugly to the posts. The wire I is passed laterally through a hole, a, made in the post, and the wire J ispassed around the back or inner face of the post, which construction prevents downslip of the clamp on the rails and allows a very firm and secure fastening of the rails by the clampwires. It is obvious that the rails by being securely clamped to the posts A stay these posts and their sills B and braces D against tipping over sidewise or in the line of the fence. The fence-wires G are fastened to the posts A by staples g in the ordinary manner.

The fence illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings is made with differently-formed or rounding rails F, which are lapped at the facev of the fence-post A, and are held thereto by a clamp bar or plate, H, made considerably longer than the clamp above described, and provided like it near its upper end with a pair of holes, through which and a hole in the post A the upper tie-wire, I, will be passed, and the ends of the wire will then be twisted togetherv at h at the face of the clamp. The tie-wires K for the four lower rails or pairs of rails in Fig.2 are bent around the inner face of the post A and below the rails, and

are twisted together at the ends 76 at the outer face of the clamp. The upper wire, 1, holds the long clamp H from slipping down, while it, with the lower wires, K, binds the rails firmly to the fence-post.

The rails may be nailed to the fence-post, if preferred, and, however the rails are held to the posts, the latter Will, bytheir capacity for adjustment, always allow the fence to be kept plumb, irrespective of the contour of the ground-surface, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a fence, With the sill B, having a vertical mortise, of the post having a tenon at its lower end entering the 11101- tise, and a rounded shoulder, a, bearing on the sill at opposite sides of the mortise, the transverse pin 0, and the brace connecting said post and sill, substantially as set forth.

2. In a fence, a base, B, rounded orbeveled at one end and formed with a vertical longitudinal mortise between its ends, a post having a tenon at its lower end entering said mortise, and rounded shoulders resting on the base at opposite sides of the mortise, the upper end of the post being beveled or inclined on the side next to the correspondinglyshaped end of the base, and the brace D, secured at its lower end to the beveled or rounded end of the base and having a series of apertures at its upper end, and the fastening E, passing through one of said apertures into the beveled or rounded end of the post, substantially as set forth.

JOHN M. FELLOWVS.

lVitnesses:

F. L. CARTER, J. J. CooKE. 

